Alan Cranston: “The Senate must decide whether we stand with the oppressed or with the oppressors.”

Upholding the [eventually successful] Mansfield point of order only adds one tree to a jungle of precedents we reside in. But above and beyond that jungle stands the Constitution, and no precedent can reverse the fact that the Constitution…

I think we have a great opportunity to expand those markets for all our growers in the country.

These provisions, which establish a $150 million trust fund from which all claims are to be paid--an amount which may not be adequate--deny to 5,000 Marshallese, who have already filed claims, their day in court.